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ESDS Government Resources for Government Crime Surveys
ESDS Government Centre for Census and Survey Research
University of Manchester
ESDS Government
• Funded by ESRC, part of larger ESDS since 2003• Supports major UK data series
– Large surveys conducted, usually by government, e.g: • British Crime Survey • Labour Force Survey• General Household Survey• Health Survey for England • etc
– Repeated cross-sections, often continuous– Important, widely used microdata
• Joint service– Team at UK Data Archive ingest and archive data– Team at Manchester deal with users– Registration for the data managed by ESDS centrally
Role
• Promoting the use of the data • Navigating users through the right
materials• Creating additional materials to help users
discover datasets and supporting materials• Encouraging good practice• Bridging the gap between data collector
and users
A Good Place to start...Crime Theme
• Crime guide provides an overview of data sources including crime
• Theme page provides links to– Crime guide– Data pages– Relevant other sites and
resources
What do our users use the data for?
2 online searchable databases:• Current Usage: Registration
information records the research use to which data is put. We share registration information on our web site if the user permits
• Publications: Users are requested to inform ESDS of publications, but we also harvest information from the ISI WOK bibliographic database
Variable search • Variable search based on
the names and labels of variables
Other web-based resources to support users
• Guiding new users through specific datasets e.g. BCS– Survey pages, FAQs, Starting Analysis, Variables search, Publications
database, Data usage search
• Methodological Guides• SPSS• Stata• Guide to weighting• Analysing Change Over Time• Working with survey files: using hierarchical data, matching files and pooling data
• Thematic Guides to using the government surveys
• Teaching datasets
• Links to other useful web resources
Outreach events
Introductory workshops Joint workshops with other ESDS servicesMethods workshopsResearch conferencesDataset user meetingsOther presentationsPosters
Help-desk
• Several hundred a year• Range of different ranges of complexity:
– How do I get access to the BCS?– Which weight should I use?– What level of geography can I get?– Why does my analysis show high levels of
missing data?– The documentation says variable X is in the data
but I can’t find it
• Help desk involves collaboration with UKDA, HO, ONS, NatCen etc
Keeping in touch
• Biannual newsletter
• Join our email list for [email protected]
• Home page contains news– Our news– New data
And in ESDS as a whole...
For Further info:
Helpdesk: [email protected]
(0161) 275 4722
Website:http://www.esds.ac.uk/government
JISCmail: [email protected]
Friends of ours...
http://surveynet.ac.ukhttp://jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/survey-
resources-network.html
Survey pages
Guiding new users through...
What do our users use the data for?
2 online searchable databases:• Current Usage: Registration
information records the research use to which data is put. We share registration information on our web site if the user permits
• Publications: Users are requested to inform ESDS of publications, but we also harvest information from the ISI WOK bibliographic database
Variable search • Variable search based on
the names and labels of variables
Statistical/analysis guides
• Introduction to SPSS (uses HSE)
• Introduction to STATA (uses LFS)
• Weighting the social surveys
• Analysing Change Over Time
• Working with survey files: using hierarchical data, matching files and pooling data
Teaching datasets
• Cut-down data for teaching• 2000 data – core sample• Excludes boosts• Includes weights for individual
and household analysis • 55 variables • User guide